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As I have noted, it would be very easy to keep secret. Having no visible explosion at the initiating event and a sub as the shooter would be no problem keeping it secret. All it would take is to lie about what happened. Who would have really had a good picture of the shootdown? The P3 had it to its back at the time of the intercept. The sub crew had no eyeballs on what happened. Those who did see an object strike the B747 likely could not identify what it was that did it. No one was expecting it to happen and only by chance would someone be looking directly at it when it did. The FDR and radar did see what happened and both tell us what happened. I reviewed the FDR and radar record and now know what happened. Isn't it strange that the NTSB did not review either the FDR or radar at the Bal'mer hearing? Without both of those, they could say anything which they wanted and no one could prove them wrong. They lied and the public bought it, excluding two-thirds of the aviation professionals who didn't.